Re:Iceland commemorates first glacier lost to climate change
by imtringued on Sunday August 18, 2019 @10:28AM
(#20730301)
You have listed discrete events that either happen or they don't. If they are avoided then it is as if they never happened in the first place. Global warming isn't like that. Once it has started you can still stop it but you can never go back to the way it was before.
Global warming is like having cancer. You go to the doctor( or scientist), you check if you have cancer (or global warming), he tells you yes you indeed have cancer and only 5 years of life left (a few decades with global warming) and if you get treated right away they might even prevent the cancer from spreading and you will have a good chance of growing old and dying in your 80s. Except you are stingy and don't want to pay the (very cheap) bill. 3 years later you are bedridden and the bill has quadrupled.
Also if you think climate change wasn't accelerated by humans then please take a look at this nice chart. https://xkcd.com/1732/
Global warming is like having cancer. You go to the doctor( or scientist), you check if you have cancer (or global warming), he tells you yes you indeed have cancer and only 5 years of life left (a few decades with global warming) and if you get treated right away they might even prevent the cancer from spreading and you will have a good chance of growing old and dying in your 80s. Except you are stingy and don't want to pay the (very cheap) bill. 3 years later you are bedridden and the bill has quadrupled.
Also if you think climate change wasn't accelerated by humans then please take a look at this nice chart. https://xkcd.com/1732/